"We would've been well aware of his timelines for resigning from his current role." This is the bit I am not so sure about. Maybe he told our Board it wouldn't be a problem to leave VECCI early, but his existing Board, said - "Hang on young fella...."

If you are correct it would be good if the Club confirmed that......

I heard him say "conversations are ongoing" etc, etc re VECCI and Racing Victoria, which is why I was interested to see VECCI come out today with their own position, which is very clear.

53 minutes ago, Harvey Wallbanger said:

"We would've been well aware of his timelines for resigning from his current role." This is the bit I am not so sure about. Maybe he told our Board it wouldn't be a problem to leave VECCI early, but his existing Board, said - "Hang on young fella...."

If you are correct it would be good if the Club confirmed that......

I heard him say "conversations are ongoing" etc, etc re VECCI and Racing Victoria, which is why I was interested to see VECCI come out today with their own position, which is very clear.

In his very first interview on the website Paul mentions the World Commerce Conference in September and that he plans to continue to be involved with this. Based on that interview it seems fairly clear the board would've been aware of it no?

1 hour ago, DistrACTION Jackson said:

In his very first interview on the website Paul mentions the World Commerce Conference in September and that he plans to continue to be involved with this. Based on that interview it seems fairly clear the board would've been aware of it no?

All the pressers seem to have been done on the Tuesday. The Club's announcement to members came out after 9 pm on Monday evening (given Caro had "broken the story". Again, speculation only, but it seems something may have happened between the Monday evening (hit the ground running) and Tuesday morning: perhaps he was reminded of his obligations to his existing employer.

This will come as no surprise to some, I'm just not impressed by my club. It seems to do everything cack handedly.

Guerra may have a great cv and track record... but no sporting club experience ??? Wow

That said other than PJ no one seems to have really lifted this club.

Red suggests time will tell... it will... but what ?

Edited April 30Apr 30 by beelzebub

15 hours ago, Adam The God said:

He was approached a month ago. Saying he was headhunted makes it sound like he's a coup for the club. He certainly wasn't our first choice. Let's see if his business connections help with the home base, but surely we needed a CEO with a footy background. Not someone who tried to get on the Essendon board and couldn't manage that.

As to his business acumen, which business has he run to the scale of the Melbourne Football Club?

Yes, it is unusual to appoint a CEO from totally outside an industry.

I'd like to know what experience he has in running a 'customer facing' organisation that delivers an ongoing service (or product). If not running such, senior management or a variety of experience at them.

imv events organising, running associations are quite a different ball game.

Does anyone have his cv and his experience ... I'd like to know what experience he has that is relevant to this role.

Edited April 30Apr 30 by Lucifers Hero

5 minutes ago, Lucifers Hero said:

Yes, it is unusual to appoint a CEO from totally outside an industry.

I'd like to know what experience he has in running a 'customer facing' organisation that delivers an ongoing service (or product). If not running such, senior management or a variety of experience at them.

imv events organising, running associations are quite a different ball game.

Does anyone have his cv and his experience ... I'd like to know what experience he has that is relevant to this role.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/paulguerraaustralia?original_referer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Egoogle%2Ecom%2F&originalSubdomain=au

Edited April 30Apr 30 by beelzebub

4 minutes ago, beelzebub said:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/paulguerraaustralia?original_referer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Egoogle%2Ecom%2F&originalSubdomain=au

I don't have access to that site.

A summary please or job titles and organisation name will do.

3 minutes ago, Lucifers Hero said:

I don't have access to that site.

A summary please or job titles and organisation name will do.

Can't upload ... don't have sufficient amount of DL space left

Try..

https://www.victorianchamber.com.au/about/executive-team

He was on SEN with Gary Lyon and Tim Watson this morning. I only heard a small part of it. Spoke well, which shouldn't be a surprise to anyone. One thing worth noting was his comment about the Caulfield Racecourse development. It was in response to a question about his priorities. I can't remember the exact words but he said something like the need to get the training and admin base done at Caulfield or somewhere else. It was clear that he didn't want to be definitive about Caulfield. Perhaps there is still some doubt whether Caulfield Racecourse wants us or, conversely, it's part of some sort of MFC negotiating tactic to play "hard to get".

2 hours ago, Lucifers Hero said:

I don't have access to that site.

A summary please or job titles and organisation name will do.

Check out the interview with him on MFC website. He details his CV and experience.

1 hour ago, La Dee-vina Comedia said:

He was on SEN with Gary Lyon and Tim Watson this morning. I only heard a small part of it. Spoke well, which shouldn't be a surprise to anyone. One thing worth noting was his comment about the Caulfield Racecourse development. It was in response to a question about his priorities. I can't remember the exact words but he said something like the need to get the training and admin base done at Caulfield or somewhere else. It was clear that he didn't want to be definitive about Caulfield. Perhaps there is still some doubt whether Caulfield Racecourse wants us or, conversely, it's part of some sort of MFC negotiating tactic to play "hard to get".

I thought it was a really good interview. Certainly spoke very well and handled himself perfectly. He tried as best as he could to keep things light with both Tim and Gaz pressing him on what he was going to do first and you could tell they were wanting to press the 'Caulfield' queries as much as possible. Finally Gaz came out and asked "What is happening with Caulfield? What do you know?" Paul answered straight away "I know as much as you at this point Gaz". Then said he was looking forward to getting into the details and would be meeting people properly in the coming days.

Seems weird that the club has let him do all this media and yet they haven't briefed him on anything yet. To me it looks like this has all come out earlier than expected and the club has just had to run with it. Lucky he's handling himself well I think.

8 hours ago, La Dee-vina Comedia said:

He was on SEN with Gary Lyon and Tim Watson this morning. I only heard a small part of it. Spoke well, which shouldn't be a surprise to anyone. One thing worth noting was his comment about the Caulfield Racecourse development. It was in response to a question about his priorities. I can't remember the exact words but he said something like the need to get the training and admin base done at Caulfield or somewhere else. It was clear that he didn't want to be definitive about Caulfield. Perhaps there is still some doubt whether Caulfield Racecourse wants us or, conversely, it's part of some sort of MFC negotiating tactic to play "hard to get".

This is basically what I wrote yesterday.

Either he wasn't briefed prior to any of this media or Caulfield has either fallen over, or at best is at least in the lurch.

But thank goodness we've got Pert overseeing the project for us.

11 minutes ago, Adam The God said:

This is basically what I wrote yesterday.

Either he wasn't briefed prior to any of this media or Caulfield has either fallen over, or at best is at least in the lurch.

But thank goodness we've got Pert overseeing the project for us.

I think we’re reaching to make this assumption.

33 minutes ago, Roost it far said:

I think we’re reaching to make this assumption.

How would anyone know either way?

The club is virtually a closed shop on Caulfield……….yet for everything else we seem to leak like a sieve.

6 minutes ago, Demon Disciple said:

How would anyone know either way?

The club is virtually a closed shop on Caulfield……….yet for everything else we seem to leak like a sieve.

Which proves my point

Professional team training on what will be a community oval at Caulfield.

Far from ideal, 17 weeks before the new man plans on placing his size 12’s under the desk.

Interesting times.

3 minutes ago, bluey said:

Professional team training on what will be a community oval at Caulfield.

Far from ideal, 17 weeks before the new man plans on placing his size 12’s under the desk.

Interesting times.

The plan clearly states the oval can be used by the community when we’re not using it. Surely in this day and age that makes sense. Why have 2 ovals sitting empty, being mowed, fertilised and then just sit there bar the 10 or so hours a week we would use it? Absolutely ridiculous waste of resources. We should be encouraging the community to use them and I’m sure that will be the case.

14 minutes ago, Roost it far said:

The plan clearly states the oval can be used by the community when we’re not using it. Surely in this day and age that makes sense. Why have 2 ovals sitting empty, being mowed, fertilised and then just sit there bar the 10 or so hours a week we would use it? Absolutely ridiculous waste of resources. We should be encouraging the community to use them and I’m sure that will be the case.

Football is played on the MCG 6 hours a week, Marvel 4 hours.

Both surfaces are poor, and are sheltered from the elements.

I understand a little about green keeping.

14 minutes ago, bluey said:

Football is played on the MCG 6 hours a week, Marvel 4 hours.

Both surfaces are poor, and are sheltered from the elements.

I understand a little about green keeping.

They’re poor because large parts of the ground are in shade most of the time (during footy season). Gosch’s paddock, as an example, is a beautiful deck and receives the elements all year round - plus all types of neighboring civilians using it year round.

19 minutes ago, bluey said:

Football is played on the MCG 6 hours a week, Marvel 4 hours.

Both surfaces are poor, and are sheltered from the elements.

I understand a little about green keeping.

Neither get direct sun and both are covered with light trolleys most of the week. Our ovals will have no grandstands blocking sunlight. I appreciate what you’re saying but I disagree.

44 minutes ago, Roost it far said:

The plan clearly states the oval can be used by the community when we’re not using it. Surely in this day and age that makes sense. Why have 2 ovals sitting empty, being mowed, fertilised and then just sit there bar the 10 or so hours a week we would use it? Absolutely ridiculous waste of resources. We should be encouraging the community to use them and I’m sure that will be the case.

And atm it is a wasteland, totally useless and of no benefit to anyone.

51 minutes ago, bluey said:

Professional team training on what will be a community oval at Caulfield.

Far from ideal, 17 weeks before the new man plans on placing his size 12’s under the desk.

Interesting times.

Great to see you’ve become more optimistic as you’ve aged Bluey 😁

1 minute ago, Redleg said:

And atm it is a wasteland, totally useless and of no benefit to anyone.

In the words of a young fella

100%

Sorry for the possible ignorance but was Caulfield ever considered a certainty to get done? I seem to remember there being a bit of pushback from the local community and council about the whole situation and tbf I don’t remember what the outcome from that was.

Whether he’s been briefed or not I doubt the first introduction Guerra wants to give us is a proclamation that we will be in Caulfield by X date, only for it to fall over later down the line. Until something a little more concrete comes out I don’t blame him for dancing around the questions. Let the bloke get his hands dirty before we criticise his ability to do the job.